Tag: CRISPR
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CRISPR and Gene Editing: The Future of Cancer Treatment
Overview of CRISPR in Medicine CRISPR (short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”) is a technology that research scientists use to selectively modify the DNA of living organisms. CRISPR was adapted for use in the laboratory from naturally occurring genome editing systems found in bacteria. This revolutionary tool is now being used in medicine…